Searching multiple tables in Access using Visual Basic

I am trying to write a piece of code that will search through a number
of different tables (current one being tableNm) to look for a specific
street name that has been entered by the user and saved as
Enteredstreet. If the street is found I then want to display a message
box saying what table the street name is in. The code I am currently
trying to use is this:

Sub dbOpentableX()

Dim dbsAddSampling As Database
Dim rstTable As Recordset

Set dbsAddSampling = CurrentDb
Set rstTable = dbsAddSampling.OpenRecordset(tableNm)

With rstTable
.Index = "STREETNM"

Do While Not .EOF
If !STREETNM = Enteredstreet Then
MsgBox "Street name found in" & tableNm

Exit Do

Else
.MoveNext

End If

Loop

End With

End Sub

But when I try to run this an error message comes up saying
'User-defined type not defined' and then highlights the bit of code
saying 'dbsAddSampling As Database'. I have probably done something
really stupid, or else the code is just rubbish, but I would
appreciate any help.

Katrina

re: Searching multiple tables in Access using Visual Basic

Katrina wrote:[color=blue]
> I am trying to write a piece of code that will search through a number
> of different tables (current one being tableNm) to look for a specific
> street name that has been entered by the user and saved as
> Enteredstreet. If the street is found I then want to display a message
> box saying what table the street name is in. The code I am currently
> trying to use is this:
>
> Sub dbOpentableX()
>
> Dim dbsAddSampling As Database
> Dim rstTable As Recordset
>
> Set dbsAddSampling = CurrentDb
> Set rstTable = dbsAddSampling.OpenRecordset(tableNm)
>
> With rstTable
> .Index = "STREETNM"
>
> Do While Not .EOF
> If !STREETNM = Enteredstreet Then
> MsgBox "Street name found in" & tableNm
>
> Exit Do
>
> Else
> .MoveNext
>
> End If
>
> Loop
>
> End With
>
> End Sub
>
> But when I try to run this an error message comes up saying
> 'User-defined type not defined' and then highlights the bit of code
> saying 'dbsAddSampling As Database'. I have probably done something
> really stupid, or else the code is just rubbish, but I would
> appreciate any help.
>
> Katrina[/color]

You might try

If (CurrentProject.Connection.Execute( _
"SELECT * FROM tbl2002Transactions " _
& "WHERE fldDescription = """ & Description & """").BOF) Then
MsgBox Description & " not found"
Else
MsgBox Description & " found"
End If

substituting your own variables.

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re: Searching multiple tables in Access using Visual Basic

"Katrina" <trinab19@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8c69a283.0503140359.5e1a32c0@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
>I am trying to write a piece of code that will search through a number
> of different tables (current one being tableNm) to look for a specific
> street name that has been entered by the user and saved as
> Enteredstreet. If the street is found I then want to display a message
> box saying what table the street name is in. The code I am currently
> trying to use is this:
>
> Sub dbOpentableX()
>
> Dim dbsAddSampling As Database
> Dim rstTable As Recordset
>
> Set dbsAddSampling = CurrentDb
> Set rstTable = dbsAddSampling.OpenRecordset(tableNm)
>
> With rstTable
> .Index = "STREETNM"
>
> Do While Not .EOF
> If !STREETNM = Enteredstreet Then
> MsgBox "Street name found in" & tableNm
>
> Exit Do
>
> Else
> .MoveNext
>
> End If
>
> Loop
>
> End With
>
> End Sub
>
> But when I try to run this an error message comes up saying
> 'User-defined type not defined' and then highlights the bit of code
> saying 'dbsAddSampling As Database'. I have probably done something
> really stupid, or else the code is just rubbish, but I would
> appreciate any help.
>
> Katrina[/color]


The first problem is references. While viewing your code, select
Tools>References and make sure you have a reference set to Microsoft DAO 3.6
Object Library. Remove any references you don't need, such as ActiveX Data
Objects. You could alter the code to:
Dim dbsAddSampling As DAO.Database
Dim rstTable As DAO.Recordset
To make sure it is clear that you are using the DAO object library.

The next comment is that something must be a bit funny about the database
structure if you have to search multiple tables for the same thing.
Normally, you would expect similar information to be stored in a single
table. Perhaps that is out of your control.

The third is that it probably doesn't make sense to open an editable
recordset based on the whole table. It is a bit wasteful since you only
need to find if there is a matching entry or not. This recordset would be
better:
strSQL="SELECT STREETNM FROM MY_TABLE WHERE STREETNM=""" & strStreet & """"
Set rst=dbs.OpenRecordset(strSQL, dbOpenForwardOnly)
However, you could use other alternatives or even scrap most of the code and
use a function like DLOOKUP, DFIRST or similar.

re: Searching multiple tables in Access using Visual Basic

Thanks Justin. What you suggested worked!!!

Katrina